The Next Level of Homemade Drinks
The Home Bar Awards challenge for Mai 2023 was to create a bourbon ‘Session’ drink for the summer. This time, the competition was supported by Basil Hayden’s. After a little research, I came up with a simple recipe which takes a little bit more effort during preparation.
September’s Home Bar Awards challenge is about vegetables as cocktail ingredients. Obviously, I had to get some of my vegetable eau de vies out for this! In the end, the result was a umami laced Harvard Cocktail variation.
The Home Bar Awards Challenge for August is all about cocktail mash-ups. So, I decided to randomly chose two drinks of the Difford’s Guide’s World’s Top 100 list. Luckily, with the P*** Star Martini and the Rum Sour I got two quite good draws. So, let us find out who the mash-up turned out!
The first regular Home Bar Awards Challenge in 2022 is about Ramos Gin Fizz Reels. – I have to admit that I am rarely mixing a Ramos Gin Fizz, not because I do not like them, but because they are quite labour intensive. Nevertheless, I came up with a variation inspired by exotic spices.
I am very happy to have won a Home Bar Awards challenge in 2021. This means that I am now able to compete in the Final competition of 2021. As in 2020, Sother Teague joins as a judge. So, I had to create a cocktail using Fernet, but also Amor Y Amargo style.
So, this month’s Home Bar Awards challenge revolves around Bee’s Knees variations. This also means it is right up my alley, because I am a big fan of the original Bee’s Knees cocktail. However, since I did not get my hands on Barr Hill Gin which partnered with Home Bar Awards, I used a barrel-aged […]
For my second Home Bar Awards drink this month, I again used apples and gin. However, in contrast to my first cocktail using local ingredients, the drink turned out quite fruity. On the one hand this was due to the different apple flavours I added to the mix, but on the other hand I also […]
So, this month’s Home Bar Awards theme are “local ingredients”. Since, this is a topic close to my heart, I decided to come up with drinks with as many local ingredients as possible. Of course, this ruled out using citrus fruits for acidity. However, through the folks from Das Schwarze Schaf Bar in Bamberg I […]
As mentioned with my article on the Hoos Sal Miakki, this month’s Home Bar Awards theme is “equal parts”. While I am presenting a specific Amaro to you today, I also want to talk about a specific drinks concept. “Maximalist cocktails” were at least to me new. Despite a few Tiki cocktails, I always thought […]
Liquorice is a love or hate thing. I love this salty flavoured sweet and at least for me, it cannot be salty enough. Therefore, I was keen on trying the new liquor from Heiko Hoos. The liquorice and salmiac flavoured liqueur opens up a lot of new possibilities for mixing cocktails. On top of that, […]
